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The Making of Macunaima – on Intercultural TranslationKatrina Dodson is the translator from the Portuguese of The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector (New Directions, 2015), winner of the PEN Translation Prize and other awards. She is currently adapting her Lispector translation journal into a book and translating the 1928 Brazilian modernist classic Macunaima, the Hero Without a Character, by Mario de Andrade (New Directions, 2019). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation on Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender & Sexuality. Dodson has taught at UC Berkeley, Bard College, and most recently in the Mills College MFA in Translation Program.